Economy Quotes
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Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce something that will make these products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete.
Brooks Stevens
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We are out of the ditch, we're standing, we're walking, but we're not running. I want to grow the economy.
Hillary Clinton
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We British have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls.
James Goldsmith
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If you increase the number of rockets you build and you buy, then it's the scale of the economy, the price is going to come down. It may not come down in order of magnitude, but if several commercial ventures start being successful and there becomes a bigger market for these rockets, the price will naturally come down a bit. That's why I think Excalibur Almaz, we're a little bit unique in that we don't look at our so-called competition with disdain, we want them to succeed and it needs to have more than one player. Even if we are successful, we couldn't handle the entire market ourselves.
Leroy Chiao
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You have to make the shift from being a consumer in the economy to becoming an owner-and you do it by becoming an investor.
Anthony Robbins
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Are people behaving as if they believe this is a weak economy? I see no indication of that. In fact, I see the contrary.
Edward Lazear
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In a global economy where our economies and supply chains are deeply integrated, it's not even possible.
Barack Obama
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The U.S. economy is in the midst of a strong and sustainable economic expansion.
Ben Bernanke
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A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible.
William Baldwin
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Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.
Alexander Stille
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The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.
Joshua Lederberg
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Yes, we should consider ways to address the deficit and bring real, direct relief to the gulf region, ... but we must not lose sight of maintaining the infrastructure that supports our economy and way of life.
Olympia Snowe
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After several false starts, the economy is showing signs of sustained recovery.
Ben Bernanke
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Clearly it's going to affect the Gulf Coast economy quite a bit. You've had a lot of property damage. Basic services are down.
Ben Bernanke
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As long as we find that the energy impact is only temporary ... my guess is that the effects on the overall economy will be fairly modest.
Ben Bernanke
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The economy is still in very good shape.
Brian Jones The Rolling Stones
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Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.
Carly Fiorina
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The impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime markets seems likely to be contained.
Ben Bernanke
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Well, our economy is very strong and growing. We have created 5.4 million new jobs in the last 3 years. Our unemployment rate is better than the average unemployment rate of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
Ric Keller
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Long-term unemployment is particularly costly to those directly affected, of course. But in addition, because of its negative effects on workers' skills and attachment to the labor force, long-term unemployment may ultimately reduce the productive capacity of our economy.
Ben Bernanke
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It is something that will help the economy.
Dennis Hastert
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The most pressing and significant problems in the global economy are unsustainable structural issues with regard to the E.U. - fiscal deficits and the structure of the E.U. itself.
Henry Paulson
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In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.
William Irwin Thompson
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I've been able to stretch myself, covering policy, looking at tax reform, looking at the broader economy [being at Fox]. It's no longer [just] about the stock market. I'm having a ball. And, the glamor of TV also makes it fun.
Maria Bartiromo